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My iPhone 8 Refuses to Die: Now It's a Solar-Powered Vision OCR Server

How I transformed my old iPhone 8 into a solar-powered Vision OCR server using Apple’s native framework and an EcoFlow River 2 Pro. Running 24/7 for months, processing thousands of images while completely off-grid.

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